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by rabidrat 7y ago
He was in a lot of pain and wanted to die on his own terms. He was an advocate for dying with dignity, and his last message was to help normalize euthanasia. The creepiness you feel is your impetus to work through your feelings about deat
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by rabidrat 7y ago
On your home page, click the "about" button, you get a 404.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I didn't downvote you, but as a tangent, on your /about page you say: > I won a 3rd place (missed the first one because of a careless mistake) and I found this kind of funny, because the only reason I could get to your about pa
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> Does this really signify empathy? I consider myself empathetic, but I wouldn't agree with the above statement. You are noticing the difference between "compassion" (a divine emotion) and "pity" (its near enemy)
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Voyager 1 and 2 had to happen in a narrow window of time to take advantage of favorable planetary alignments. If we launched something like this now, it would take an order of magnitude more fuel and still not be able to go as fast. The n
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Most people won't live their lives intentionally no matter what you do. It's a noble goal to increase the number from, say, 10% to 20%. But getting even a majority of people are going to 'care for their health for their own
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Ants have a mass of 3mg, so 2 million ants is about 6kg. For perspective.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
If you can't give a 100% positive reference, tell the person before they include you as a reference. Then when giving a reference, make sure it is 100% positive. Google (and in fact, most companies) only want to hire candidates who ap
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by rabidrat 7y ago
There are two broad types of meditation: concentration, and reflection. I can see how e.g. video games could be a kind of concentration practice. The benefit of deliberate meditation concentration practice is that you learn to apply conce
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I know more people who are experimenting with microdosing LSD than who have a daily meditation practice.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Have you tried VisiData? https://visidata.org .
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Good scams start off as legal until new laws are written detailing how exactly the scams are illegal in the future.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Probably around 4-6 hours of work all told. We had to come up with a new name, do a find/replace, review the changes, test, fix a couple of issues because the replace wasn't perfect/complete, update the dev documentation, mak
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I used `async` as the name of a function decorator in some Python3.4 code, which then broke in 3.6 which introduced `async` as a keyword.
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You know what they say, when everyone is responsible, no one is responsible.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
In the early/mid 90s, there was a big political fight over whether commerce should be allowed over the internet. On 'our' side (geeks, academics, netizens), we believed that commercialization of the internet would lead to it
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> if you advertise at me without my permission, then I will remember your name and NEVER consider buying your product. Unfortunately it seems that their tactics work, because we subconsciously remember their name but then lose track of
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Seattle OneBusAway trip planning on Android turned off(onebusaway.org)
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by rabidrat 7y ago
That's cool. How does it differ from tmate.io though?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
That money does not come without cost: competitiveness at work, imposter syndrome, unreasonable deadlines, on-call rotations. Not to mention that you'll very likely be working for a mega-corp trying to improve some abstract metric for
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by rabidrat 7y ago
or they would find the crimes with a great cost-benefit and become billionaires.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
"moments later". It takes time to turn around.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
$200/mo is quite a lot for "basic". I could see myself doing 2k or even 20k requests per month, but nowhere near 200k. If there were a $20/mo option (or maybe even $50/mo) I might consider it. But then of course
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by rabidrat 7y ago
and yet, future mistakes are still happening. A lot of work has gone into automation but the outcome is often the same. So is it worth it?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
They were named 'killer' for some reason, but the only known attacks on humans are from Orcas in captivity. They're not innocuous and sweet, of course, but they got a bad rep for a couple decades and so weren't a '
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by rabidrat 7y ago
A "crank" is a very specific type of person, who will not heed any constructive criticism and in fact deliberately avoids resources from the establishment. Any dismissal is viewed as a conspiracy by the establishment to keep thei
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by rabidrat 7y ago
IMO "mistake" implies an incorrect choice, whereas "error" implies an incorrect result. A mistake may or may not cause an error (and an error may or may not be caused by a mistake). There seems to be an element of &quot
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by rabidrat 7y ago
How would we get at the information if we don't have the technology to launch a rocket/spaceship to retrieve it?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I meant it more as, you may not be able to count on your pension, so work a few more years and save additional money for retirement.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
One thing that a person could do with this information: if you were counting on your pension to last the rest of your life, you might postpone your retirement a few years.

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